They should make a cool phone and call it Meego Phoenix ;D

Besides you wont find information about these important topics in the library 1. contagion 2. green bay packers 3. donald driver 4. drew brees 5. tonga 6. aaron rodgers 7. go daddy 8. 9 11 9. irb 10. blackout 11. new zealand 12. super bowl 2011 13. 9/11 14. iceland 15. new orleans saints 16. reggie bush 17. michael j fox 18. kid rock 19. jordin sparks 20. javascript

Me too, I want to resign, but Apple patented the design.

Must be the European in me...

So I guess after studying the statistics you'll agree that CAFE standards don't cause any fatalities and idiots in government have done a good job?

There were more fatalities in 1972 and less cars, but I guess that is a cool car. http://blog.american.com/2010/09/the-good-old-days-are-now-trickle-down-automotive-safety/ Slashdot has been invaded by garbage or propaganda submissions. Is someone getting paid for this crap?

You prefer monarchy? Any way some statistics if someone wants to read them: http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/cats/transportation/motor_vehicle_accidents_and_fatalities.html

Could an analogue to collectibles such as art or antiquities be closer than gold?

Exactly, that was my point. They are now based on metric system.

Those folksy measures are actually based metric system. Inch = 25.400000×103 m Rod = 5.029210 m Pound = 0.45359237 kg

No I'm not, infact I live in Espoo...

I drive my car to work though I should take a bus. Why do I do it? It saves me 10 minutes of my commute and I don't have to walk 500 meters from the bus stop to the office. Bus would be cheaper, but car is bit more convenient. Even with the difficulty of parking it in the city.

In Finland we're working towards the impossible when price of gas consists of 100% tax. It's at about 70% at the moment if I remember correctly + VAT, which is 23%. We pay about 6.5€/Gallon or 1.6€/liter. I guess that is about $8-$10/Gallon. Guess what, people still drive cars and roads are congested. We also pay a lot of import tax on cars, but I won't go into that

So even with heavy taxation driving is more desirable that taking the Bus or Train and public transportation system here in the Helsinki area is actually quite comprehensive. To kill this method of transportation Finnish government would need to give up lucrative taxes, prop up electric vehicles or what ever we invent in next forty years and their questionable environmental impact, and private sector should take a gamble and build the infrastructure. Maybe that will happen, but it will be much more intricate play of policies, transfer of money from one sector to another than just simple ban on petrol vehicles in the city centers.

Alright ;) have to get back to work. I'm telecommuting today and should not spend my time posting to /.

Of course they do all that, but pretending that passage of regulation that takes effect in about four decades is just silly posturing. Rising petrol cost, utilization of telecommunication will probably reduce petrol based traffic in the future. Alternatives wont be realized unless they are economically feasible. It's politically impossible to ban major method of transportation, unless you decide to ban in the future when we all can fly using our utility belt or something.

So I think this kind of "bans" or regulations are empty posturing and waste of time and smug MEPs passing these should be laughed out of Brussels or told to do something productive.

It seems that we have a tradition here in Europe to make a political decisions that defies physics, economics and general sense of reality.

In forty years we will probably have different methods of transportation (I'll be using a cool cane with a sword in it), but this decision has nothing to do with that.

Europe should spend money on basic research, experimenting with new ideas and taxing petrol if different forms of transportation are desired.

I recently coded two Symbian apps to Nokias Ovi store (a dice simulation and a stopwatch if anyone is interested). With the stopwatch it was really necessary to abandon the UI elements offered by the OS and do all rendering using bitblit directly to hardware. That way I could get frame rate of about 60-100frames/second. With the regular UI classes response was embarrassingly lame. Framework provided relatively nice ways for sending and storing results, but figuring out how everything works was quite a pain and I had to work backwards from examples using trial and error. Biggest pain was the resource system that aborted application without possibility to debug when some small error sneaked into it, requiring continuous vigilance when doing even simple task. For dice simulation I ported the MIT Bullet Physics for Symbian without really big problems at first. At some point strange linking errors started creeping up and I actually had to tweak the code to get rid of them. Some errors never really went away. For example after I added a possibility to take a picture with the phones camera and put it as texture on the side of the dice linker started failing with undocumented errors, but compiling it again produced image that worked fine. Somehow these seem to me as the inherent problems with Symbian. Seemingly correct code produces unexplained crashes in frameworks that seem wobbly at best. I'm not saying similar things don't happen on other platforms and have experienced some. But the learning curve to start coding in Symbian is definitely steeper than for example in Android. Of course maybe the more challenging environment keeps some fart apps off the market.